An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, With Illustrations on the Moral Sense vs An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue: Which Should You Read?

An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, With Illustrations on the Moral Sense Francis Hutcheson · 1728 339 pages · ≈ 6 h 17 m · Demanding

"Francis Hutcheson is one of the central figures in eighteenth-century moral philosophy. Read widely in Britain, France, Germany, and America, he influenced philosophers ranging from his student Adam Smith to Kant.…

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue Francis Hutcheson · 1725 ★★★★☆ 3.8 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Demanding

"The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our…